The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 22, 1952, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, September 22, 1952 Che Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- tisher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ano Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County t. P. ARTMAN NCRMAN D. ARTMAN __ Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 eet Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or go. owverwise credited in this paper, and also the iocal news cuolishea here. Publishez — \lember Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ——— The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, out it will not publish anonymous communications, VEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED eo BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Paviiion. i Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Coumunity Auditorium. NEW TRAFFIC REGULATIONS ARE GOOD BUT PARKING VIOLATIONS FREQUENT The city’s new traffic regulations are working well, though there are daily violations, chiefly in parking on two-way streets. Thus far the police have been lenient, watch is commendable, because hometown drivers, accus- tomed to going to and from home along certain streets, sometimes unwittingly run against traffic for a block or more. But those violations are few compared with parking oy the prohibited sides of Front, Caroline, and Eaton streets from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. Those conditions, though not as bad as they were before the new regulations were adopted, still cause drivers, going in opposite directions, to squeeze through cars parked on both sides of those | streets, particularly Caroline and Eaton. As The Citizen has pointed out many a time during the years Duval has been a one-way street, tourists fre- quently run against traffic because they do not see the signs on the posts at the sides of the street. Taxi drivers at Duval and Greene streets will tell you that, during past winters, they have often called out to tourists, going up Duval street from Front, “Hey, one-way street!” What has been true of Duval in that regard will be | Southard | true also the coming winter of Fleming and streets, unless arrow signs are painted on those streets at corners, as is done in many cities. A good driver is intent on looking ahead to see the way is clear, and seldom looks for a signpost or a sign, six to eight feet in the air. The Citizen, several times since the adoption of the new regulations, has suggested the repair, temporarily at least, of William, Margaret, Grinnell and Francis streets, which are important connecting links between | Caroline and Southard streets. But a condition, far worse than any of those cross streets, exists on Fleming street between Francis and White. This is the block t torn up to make extensive sewer repairs, The surface was left in a deplorable state, with spring-breaking ruts, and nothing has since been done to improve it. Every resort, winter or summer, caters does everything possible to attract them to everything possible to keep them here when they The Key West Chamber of Commerce is in attaining those ends, and, as good roads are appreciat- ed by tourists, the city should do its part to r ir the streets in question, at was to tourists, come come ively engaged Pompousness in public officials is a tr bodies secretly admire. SLICE OF HAM aspiring no- “ARE YA SURE YA GOT THE RIGHT ADDRESS 6 Down The Hatch! * Clamagore when the Secretary George .F. Morin and his staff today. | People’s Forum | evccescceesevesouece The Citizen wetcomes ex sions of the views of its ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items whieb are considered tibelous or anwar- ranted The writers should be | fair cor‘ine the letters to 200 and write on une side of the paper only. Sfenature of the writer mast accompany the letters and will be published an- lens reqeested otherwise. “WANTS TRACK DATA” | Editos, Key West Citizen: The promoters of the proposed | Key West dog track have repeat- | jedly stressed the advantages and | benefits of thhe venture to the en- | tire community, If this is such an excellent busi- ness venture for the Community, how many local persons are inter- ) ested financially in the track? As | a matter of ‘ormation for the Key West voters, we believe a re- print of the recently published list of names and addresses of all stockholders, officers and prin- | cipals, will show who will benefit the most. This information is a public re- cord in Tallahasee,; we believe it should be made available to the We do not have at hand, but as we ers are even Florida residents, IT SHOULD BE QUITE OB | VIOUS TO “THE VOTERS WHICH , | i and | ota boat 46. Woman’ Danish ford By birth Type of e ie currents | Visual Education ‘ week's unemployment is slightly Citizen Staff Photu INSPECTION TOUR OF NAVAL ACTIVITIES HERE began with a visit to the su of the Brazilian Navy, Vice Admiral Renato A. G ped in Key West en route from Rio de Janeiro to Washington, D. C. Accompani and United States Naval officers, Guillobel>who arrived Wednesday Clamagore yesterday morning and spent 45 minutes on the submarine which is the flagship of Capt. C. H. Andrews, commander of SubRon Four. after Skipper of the Clamagore, Lt. Com@r. and crew greeted the distinguished visitor who Admiral Irving T. Duke, commanding officer of all Naval bases in th Lt. Commander Turner Takes Sub Command Cmdr. Carroll Ts Relieved Of USS Amberjack Duties Classes Are Held At High School Key West High School has class- ;es on Saturday, but strictly on a | volunteer basis. Students who wish to learn to run audio-visual mach- ines are getting free instructions from J. M. Martin. L The school has a wide variety of | took modern equipment which makes | berjack, possible an unusually effective | marine | teaching program. The training {| ¢¢ program Is just one more step to- |" ward the ideal condition which; , makes it easy for the teacher to use audio-visual aids for instruction | without leaving the classroom. The students may benefit person ally if they go to college. Many of | crew the better colleges offer sch | ships to studants who can run the audio-visual machines for the pro- |, | fessors. This is ea pleasant work that does not interfere with college | study, and helps pay the expense of living away from home. More than 10 students have already vol unteered for the instruction, which is given individually, COMMUNITIES ATLEY BE: : Betty B. McCarrick 2928 Seidenburg Avenue WOULD ULTIM- (Unemployment ‘Payments Are Given 9 Here TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 22—Unem- ployment checxs have shown a | decided increase for the week 2nd- ing September 12, announced Ray- | t..ond E. Barnes, Chairman of the Florida Industrial Commission, to- day. Although the weekly unem- ployment compensation report showed a large drop for the first | week in September, figures this week reveal that claimant and pay- ment lists haVe risen again. Stat- | istically the first week in Septem- ber disclosed that 9,600 persons re- \ ceived $178,304 whereas the week ending September 12 brought the figures up to 13,428 claimants who received $272,881. This is a differ- | ence of approximately 4,000 persons and $100,000. Even the sudden rise in this | less than at the same time last | year when 13,824 persons claimed $240,550. In this country 9 persons re- ceived $178 from the Unemploy- ment Compensation Division. Interesting Notes Chlorine is needed to DDT. make The British Royal Marines | have existed officially in Britain since 1664. Ice in the Arctic Ocean slowly |moves clockwise around the North Pole, pushed by prevailing! | winds and currents set up by the spin of the earth. The old slate blackboard is | obsolete and should be replaced in the schoolroom by a green chalk board for easier seeing, according to the American Op- tometric Association. jmouth, N. H. After reading his w orders and turning over the ck to his successor, . Carroll shook hands per- y with every member of e crew and the chiefs lined up immaculate whites on the deck. He was presented with a farewell giv of a watch an be-) alf of the men who served with Tle presentation was made ef W. T. Christian. dr. Carroll shook hands in farewell with his former of- f and with Capt. W. P. >1.i, commander of SubRon and his staff who were pres- | | Turner is. from f and is marriec to er Miss Caroline Eh.- Washington, D. C. He ved 12 war patrols with | r Grryback, Tautog and holds two Silver Stars, a| been able to get to those legally | e Star and a commendation | public records, I might have been | yon | 46-47, he took a_ post- * degree in naval en-| at Annapolis, then | ned to the submarine | in 1948-49. The Bumper | Silat bn bn bn tnt ttn tnt vin ntti ttt tnt) THIS ROCK Apparently, several people—both , | male and female—are provoked at “This Rock of Ours” because the }column suggested last week that | | many so-called rape cases are act- | ually self-invited. Also, that the Key | West populace had better get a | grip on itself before it permits a | wave of mass hysteria to spread | jover the town. Women who have actually been subjected to attack or molested by peeping toms—through no fault of their own—should not feel that the column was directed at them. My writing was aimed at the female who flaunts her nakedness at a man and then loses control of the situation and has to call for the police. Life as we know it today seems to make women a necessary evil. Sometimes a man cannot help but think what a wonderful world this would be if this wasn’t the case. Take a news story that occured a- | while back... A lady, (we'll call her that), had a next door neighbor arrested for public indecency because he took a bath everyday in the nude and she could see him from her win- dow. The man was found guilty but—here is the rest of the story. . In the first place, most people take a bath without any clothes on. Secondly, the complaining woman described how she had to stretch her neck in order to see into her neighbor’s bathroom window. Per- sonally I’m surprised that the man she had arrested didn’t stretch her neck a little further after the court trial. Seriously Speaking This column has all the respect in the world for women and the utmost sympathy for those who have been victims of perverted madmen. I talked with a couple of ladies the other night who had both suf- fered rather harrowing experi- ences. Experiences that made me ashamed of myself and of other Key West residents who have al- lowed the local condition to get so far out of hand. The ladies showed me proof of fifty-six actual crimes here in Key West and twenty-three of them in- volved rape, attempted rape, peep- ing toms, and prowlers. | Up until about a month ago, 1} h-ndled the police beat. None of | these cases were made public. Regular readers will remember that I wrote a column complaining about secrecy in police records. That no blotter was kept and that records were hidden in loose-leaf files in cabinets. | About the same time, this writer spoke to Dave King and C. B. Har- vey. Neither official wished to com- mit himself. The matter was left hanging. As a newspaperman, if I had able to awaken the public to the WHEN IN MIAMI VISIT THE OF OURS BILL GIBB 4 44444444444444444444444444444442465486 shameful condition that exists to- day and perhaps have prevented much of it. Hiding official facts isn’t going to keep down crime. The responsibiilty for cleaning up the present situation quickly can be placed equally upon Dave King, Joe Kemp, C. B. Harvey, Jack Delaney, Delio Cobo John Corbonell, and Louis Eisner. Fail- jure on their part to do their job | will mean that local civic organ- izations such as the American Legion will have to take over and |form a voluntary patrol. It is the | only solution I can see. | City officials cry that they hav- jen’t any money as if the money |they spend would have to come |from their owr pocket. Yet money is found to buy docks, ete. Why try to make Key West grow unless the | growth also means improvement? A bigger and better town? No—we want a better town first. 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